Politics and Government

Ever since Japan and the West discovered one another, Western observers have extolled the surface virtues of Japanese women but attended very littl...

The effort to establish economic, political, arid monetary integration in Europe is one of the great dramas of our time, and the implications of it...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the uprising in the Territories of the Israel and the Palestinians and to assess its ramifications for the ...

"This book is intended as an overview of the uprising-the Intifada of the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, territories occupied by Isra...

How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible—and what is inevitable   To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell de...

This book examines two opposing interpretations of NAFTAs potential expansion into a Western Hemisphere Free Trade Association (WHFTA)one fearing t...

This book is about the growth and the role of services in the overall growth of the European economy to develop an adequate framework for assessing...

This innovative work demystifies the Japanese economy by considering it as a strategic system. Showing how the Japanese “miracle†is actively plan...

This volume focuses on the third Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Follow-Up Meeting which took place in Vienna from November...

Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example ...

The 1987-89 drought was a signal event in the evolving interrelationshipsamong climate, natural resources management, technology,and society in the...

First published in 1977, France 1870-1914 combines an outline of events with an analytical treatment of the main political institutions and forces ...

How do we interpret the recent changes in world politics and what is the future likely to hold? The contributors to this volume share an assumption...

A searing argument—and work of meticulous scholarship—about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in s...

In April 2003, The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) celebrated its tenth anniversary and this book has been produced in order to commemora...

"This book is the result of a team effort that has brought together researchers from Europe, Japan and North America. Their backgrounds and experie...

An inside account of the events unfolding in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. In a series of interviews, 14 leaders of Gorbachev's reforms...

This Handbook provides an authoritative and foundational disciplinary overview of African Public Policy and a comprehensive examination of the prac...

The interface between psychology and politics has been an area of sustained inquiry for several decades. More recently, the nexus between psychopol...

Over the past 150 years, Americans have responded repeatedly to the needs of people in foreign lands, providing aid in times of natural disaster, i...

This book describes the established pattern of regional studies of colonial Spanish America with a study of the social history of colonial Quito ro...

The past few decades have seen special and changing emphasis in policy frameworks of rural financial intermediation in developing countries, varyin...

This comprehensive study examines the sources of growth and stagnation in the Israeli economy, focusing on the development of the industrial and ag...

Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue...

How did Zhao Ziyang rise through the provincial apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party to become premier in 1980? How did he develop the policies...

Examining recent European experience with industrial policy, Dr. Udis explores ways to ease the transition to reduced or redirected levels of milit...

Japan has been among the first of the handful of countries to move "beyond modern," and in this third edition of a much-praised book, Ardath Burks ...

Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilit...

For many areas of social science research, including conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and international state-building, Kosovo remains a uniquel...

Since 1945, the role of the president in shaping domestic and foreign policy has changed dramatically. Though the prodigious growth of the federal ...

International Communism today is split on a number of ideological and political issues and is incapable of the kind of unified action implied by th...

Avi Shlaim's Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace is the first major account one of the most important figures in the turbulen...

This book assesses the everyday use of petitions in administrative and judicial settings and contrasts these with more assertive forms of political...

In The Prime Minister: the Office and its Holders since 1945, Peter Hennessy explores the formal powers of the Prime Minister and how each incumben...

The combined efforts of the World Peace Foundation, the G. D. Howe Research Institute, and the Centre Quebecois de Relations Internationales have c...